TASCHEN
Tom Wolfe Collector's Edition
PROVENANCE: Taschen Published
9.4" x 13.4"
x 3"
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In 1964, famed writer Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters set off across America on a “Transcontinental Bus Tour,” headed for the New York World’s Fair, drinking (still perfectly legal) LSD-laced orange juice along the way. Kesey’s journey, in the company of his Merry Pranksters, lies at the heart of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, an as-if-first-hand account of the group’s antics and ethos by Tom Wolfe, wunderkind of the New Journalism movement. Celebrated as a classic of American literature as well as the hippie movement, the text explores both the esoteric experience of hallucinogens and fundamental societal shifts of 1960s America.
In this Collector’s Edition, signed by Tom Wolfe, an abridged Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is published in traditional letterpress, with facsimile reproductions of Wolfe’s manuscript pages, as well as Ken Kesey’s jailhouse journals, handbills, and underground magazines of the period. Interweaving the prose and ephemera are photographic essays from Lawrence Schiller, whose coverage of the acid scene for Life magazine helped inspire Wolfe to write his story, and Ted Streshinsky, who accompanied Wolfe while reporting for the New York Herald Tribune.
These photographs—together with those of poet Allen Ginsberg and other photographers who covered the scene—paint a vivid picture of the counterculture world that set Wolfe’s scene: acid parties near “capsule corner” in Hollywood, the hippie-filled streets of Haight-Ashbury, the abandoned pie factory the Pranksters called home, and the infamous Acid Tests, Kool-Aid and all.
Marking the year of original publication, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is limited to 1,968 signed copies, including:
Collector’s Edition of 1,768 numbered copies, each signed by Tom Wolfe, featuring:
-Silk-screened hardcover with an embossed paper case
-Letterpress printed text on a natural uncoated paper
-Facsimile reproductions of Tom Wolfe’s manuscript pages and other period ephemera
Marking the year of original publication, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is limited to 1,968 signed copies.
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- Artist: TASCHEN
- Title: Tom Wolfe Collector's Edition
- Media: PROVENANCE: Taschen Published
- Dimensions: 9.40" x 13.40" x 3.00"
- Edition: 000404
- Height: 9.4"
- Width: 13.4"
- Depth: 3"
- Weight: 7 lbs
- Product Code: T-117-000404
Tom Wolfe Collector's Edition
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